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flag Dr. William Foege, architect of smallpox eradication via ring vaccination, has died at 89.

flag Dr. William Foege, a pioneering public health leader and key architect of the smallpox eradication campaign, has died at 89. flag He developed the "ring containment" strategy in Nigeria in the 1960s, targeting close contacts of infected individuals with vaccines, a method critical to the global effort that led to smallpox being declared eradicated in 1980. flag Foege served as CDC director from 1977 to 1983 and held leadership roles at The Carter Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Task Force for Global Health, which he co-founded. flag He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 and is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives.

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